1943 – The Philadelphia Athletics drop their 20th game in a row, losing to Chicago, 6 – 5. This ties the American League record. They dodge the bullet in game two by scoring 8 runs in the 2nd inning to win, 8 – 1.
1942 – The Dodgers open a 4-game series in St. Louis with Larry French (13-1) on the mound for the front-runners. Terry Moore scores four runs for the Birds as they coast to a 7 – 1 victory behind Max Lanier’s 14th victory.
During a double-header against the Cardinals, a ragtag group of five ‘musicians’, dubbed the Dodger SymPhony by announcer Red Barber, makes their Ebbets Field’s debut. This band, in which none of the members can read music, performs their zany antics at all evening and weekend games.
Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams, in Detroit’s 12-1 blowout of the team, pitches the last two innings of the first game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park. The ‘Splendid Splinter’, who strikes out Rudy York on three pitches, allows only one run on three hits.
The Dodgers split a pair in Pittsburgh, losing the opener, 4 – 3 before winning, 8 – 1. In the nitecap, Joe Gallagher hits a double and homer in the same inning.
1938 – Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter – the highest season total in organized ball this century – for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game.
1935 – Giants OF Hank Leiber ties the major-league record with two home runs during an 8-run, second-inning assault on the Cubs.
1930 – New York’s Fred Lindstrom has his 24-game hitting streak stopped as the Giants lose to the Cubs, 3 – 2. The game is tied 2-all in the bottom of the 9th, when the Cubs load the bases with two out. With the count 0 and 2, Danny Taylor the runner on 3rd, races safely home as surprised Giant reliever Joe Heving watches and then completes his deliberate windup with a wide pitch.
Special Memory or Event? Want to have some fun? Advertise your business? Dedicate this page August 24, 1928 – In Philadelphia at Shibe Park‚ the Philadelphia A’s tip the Cleveland Indians‚ 1-0 behind Rube Walberg’s shutout. Rube scores the games only tally on a single by Mickey Cochrane off loser Joe Shaute. The Mackmen…
1922 – The Browns collect 20 hits and score nine runs in the first two innings to stun the Red Sox, 13 – 2. Ken Williams extends his hitting streak to 28 games, but will be stopped here.
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